wish fulfillment
- gratification of desires.
- Psychoanalysis. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex.
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Origin of wish fulfillment
First recorded in 1905–10
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Examples from the Web for wish fulfillment
Contemporary Examples
Cain might just be for conservatives what Barack Obama was for liberals in 2008—a kind of wish-fulfillment candidate.
Historical Examples
Glance now, among these dreams, at a simple example of "wish-fulfillment."
The Ordeal of Mark TwainVan Wyck Brooks
Wish-fulfillment has become that phrase for the new dream-science.
A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud
So this is the second wish-fulfillment, but the wish is that of the husband.
A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud
You also make use of this unpleasant state of mind to conceal the wish-fulfillment.
Dream PsychologySigmund Freud
It is in fact the wish-fulfillment that has already induced us to separate dreams into two groups.
Dream PsychologySigmund Freud
wish fulfillment
(wĭsh)- In psychoanalytic theory, the satisfaction of a desire, need, or impulse through a dream or other exercise of the imagination.
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